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- NATION, Page 47American NotesTHE PRESIDENCYMission to Moscow
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- "Nowadays, if Rip Van Winkle were to fall asleep in the
- Soviet Union, he would only have time for a very short nap
- before finding that everything had changed!" It was Ronald
- Reagan in a familiar mode, the storyteller. But he had an
- unusual circle of listeners: the foreign affairs committee of
- the Supreme Soviet. The former President made a five-day tour
- of the Soviet Union last week, his first visit to the erstwhile
- Evil Empire since his 1988 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He
- got a warm greeting from Gorbachev at the Kremlin, where the two
- embraced like old friends. He also squeezed in a quick meeting
- with Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian federation,
- who has become one of Gorbachev's radical rivals.
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